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When an old man’s body is discovered drowned, a Berlin policeman begins a routine investigation which rapidly becomes anything but routine. Ordered off the case by the Gestapo, his curiosity leads him through a maze of unexplained happenings.
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Ancient Rome teems with ambitious and ruthless men. None is more brilliant than Marcus Cicero. A rising young lawyer, backed by a shrewd wife, he decides to gamble everything on one of the most dramatic courtroom battles of all time. Win it, and he could win control of Rome itself. Lose it, and he is finished for ever.
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Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world’s most heinous villains – a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother’s children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the the Tudors? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard III really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.
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This is an omnibus of wonderful Jeeves and Wooster stories, specially selected and introduced by Wodehouse himself, who was struck by the size of his selection and described it as almost the ideal paperweight.
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Frank Machianno is an ex-surf bum. He’s a fixture of the community, a stand-up businessman, a devoted father to his daughter. Frank has consigned his Mob ties to the past. However, someone from his past wants him dead, and he has to figure out who, and why, and he has to do it fast.
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Written by P.G. Wodehouse, the stories collected in this title follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster, an upper-class 1920s playboy and his butler Jeeves.
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When Peter, Margaret and Celia inherit a rambling old house from an uncle, they soon realise that for years no one has been keen to set foot in the place. The things that go bump in the night take a more sinister turn when a murder is committed.
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A small, unnamed Eastern-bloc country is making its first tentative steps towards democracy. As his country moves from a tenuous democracy into an even more totalitarian state, homicide inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar learns what it means to be betrayed and what it means to be the betrayer.
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‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ chronicles the lives of over 300 characters, throughout the 20th century. The first novel in the sequence follows Nicolas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles which stand between them and the ‘Acceptance World’.
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Porterhouse is a backwoods institution which is supported by fee-paying students who buy their degrees. When Sir Godber Evans becomes Master, whispers of radical change echo through the cloisters. Standing in his way is Skullion, the college porter.
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From New York to Las Vegas, Merlyn and his brother Artie obey their own code of honour in the ferment of contemporary America, where law and organised crime are one and the same.
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Francie Nolan is a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. Her family are brave, devoted immigrants, struggling to survive and rise above the squalor, poverty and violence that surround their tenement home.